This is going to be harder than I thought. My hand tremors make fine detail work and smooth blending just not possible. So I needed to figure out a way to still show detail without relying on being able to tightly control a brush… Imagine this whole figure is not much bigger than a quarter so the detail is Itty bitty… And much of my other ones are even smaller…. But anywhoooooo….

Left: End of Stage 2 yesterday

Right: Part 1 of Stage 3 – First Highlights
I am trying a technique that you can see the best on the tree trunk. I created very strong, dramatic highlights in a cartoon style and will go back once it’s ready and add some light color back over the top to add tone back in… Not at all my normal style but it might work…